National Instruments - Product Announcements

The new National Instruments CompactRIO integrated systems are advanced programmable automation controllers (PACs) that combine an industrial real-time processor and a reconfigurable FPGA within a single chassis, lowering the cost of CompactRIO for high-volume machine control and monitoring applications. Quickly program and customize the CompactRIO FPGA using NI LabVIEW software. (read more)

National Instruments, a market leader in PC-based data acquisition, offers the most complete family of data acquisition devices for desktop, portable, industrial, and embedded applications on several buses, including PCI, PCI Express, PXI, PCMCIA, USB, CompactFlash, Ethernet, and FireWire, and many operating systems. (read more)

National Instruments, a market leader in PC-based data acquisition, offers the most complete family of data acquisition devices for desktop, portable, industrial, and embedded applications on several buses, including PCI, PCI Express, PXI, PCMCIA, USB, CompactFlash, Ethernet, and FireWire, and many operating systems. (read more)

National Instruments LabVIEW SignalExpress software with NI CompactDAQ deliver a turnkey, USB plug-and-play data logger system with more than 200 advanced analysis functions and more than 30 available measurement modules. NI data logging hardware is modular and can be customized to measure from a wide variety of sensors as well as voltage and current. (read more)

Develop next-generation production machines with requirements beyond the capabilities of PLCs. LabVIEW 8.5 helps engineers complete machine automation projects in less time than traditional tools. (read more)

National Instruments LabVIEW 8.5 software simplifies multicore development for data acquisition and instrument control systems. Designed for engineers and scientists, LabVIEW is multithreaded and inherently parallel, with built-in connectivity to I/O, extensive analysis functions, and advanced display and plotting capabilities. View interactive demos and try LabVIEW 8.5 free online (read more)

NI CompactDAQ hardware provides the plug-and-play simplicity of USB to sensor and electrical measurements on the benchtop, in the field, and on the production line. By combining the ease of use and low cost of a data logger with the performance and flexibility of modular instrumentation, NI CompactDAQ delivers fast and accurate measurements in a small, simple, and affordable system. (read more)

A Closer Look at Windows Vista For 30 years, National Instruments has incorporated the latest technologies directly into our products, delivering performance benefits while shielding you from compatibility development efforts. Learn about the principle new features in Windows Vista and how NI can help get your test, control, and design applications Windows Vista ready (read more)

NI M Series isolated multifunction data acquisition devices combine the safety and performance benefits of isolation with high-performance timing, amplification, and calibration technologies for increased accuracy. Built-in isolation protects devices from transients, while eliminating common measurement problems such as common mode voltages and ground loops. Compare and Buy Devices Online (read more)

NI LabVIEW SignalExpress provides an interactive measurement workbench for quickly acquiring, analyzing, and presenting data from hundreds of data acquisition devices and instruments, with no programming required. (read more)

The National Instruments CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC) is a low-cost reconfigurable control and acquisition system designed for applications that require high performance and reliability. The system combines an open embedded architecture with small size, extreme ruggedness, and hot-swappable industrial I/O modules. (read more)

Today's complex RF systems require a flexible test platform to deliver reliable measurements from prototype to manufacturing. National Instruments RF instruments combine sophisticated industry-leading software with the latest precision measurement hardware to deliver a high-performance platform for communications test from DC to 2.7 GHz with 20 MHz of real-time bandwidth. (read more)

The National Instruments USB-621x multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) modules are optimized for superior accuracy at fast sampling rates. They feature up to 32 analog inputs; 250 kS/s single-channel sampling rate; 2 analog outputs; up to 8 digital input lines; up to 8 digital output lines; four programmable input ranges (±0.2 V to ±10 V) per channel; digital triggering; and 2 counter/timers. (read more)

National Instruments PCI Express high-speed digital I/O instruments are based on a new architecture that reduces cost and maximizes throughput. NI PCIe-6537 and NI PCIe-6536 digital I/O boards offer engineers a low-cost, flexible digital interface for a wide range of applications including interfacing to memory devices, emulating communications protocols, testing image sensors and display panels. (read more)

Download the Signal Processing, Analysis and Math Resource Kit to learn how LabVIEW can help make sense out of raw data you need to manipulate, process, and analyze acquired data and extract information. View a tutorial, technical white paper, or webcast to learn about built in alternatives such as graphical dataflow programming and textual MathScript. Download the resource kit today. (read more)

The NI PXI-8106 and NI PXIe-8106 controllers deliver a performance improvement of more than 100 percent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. (read more)

The National Instruments Vision Development Module is a collection of image processing and machine vision functions for numerous programming languages, such as NI LabVIEW and Microsoft C++, Visual Basic, and .NET. With these functions you can enhance images, check for presence, locate features, identify objects, and measure parts. (read more)

The NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW is for machine builders and OEMs creating custom motion controllers for better machine performance, and for researchers implementing advanced motion control design algorithms using National Instruments CompactRIO, plug-in DAQ modules, plug-in R Series devices, or Compact FieldPoint. (read more)

With NI Motion Assistant 2.0, you now can design a motion control application in an interactive 3D environment, convert it into C code for any C compiler, or into NI LabVIEW virtual instruments (VIs). NI Motion Assistant also exposes its patent-pending smart-contouring functionality with an API that you can call from C, Visual Basic, or LabVIEW. (read more)

National Instruments Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) is a configurable machine vision development environment that requires no programming. With Vision Builder AI 3.0, you can solve most machine vision application challenges without the use of a programming language or complicated customization tools. (read more)

National Instruments has doubled its PXI RF switch offering for 50 and 75 ohm RF applications. The new modules include 4x1, terminated 4x1, dual 4x1 and 8x1 multiplexers as well as quad (4) SPDT and dual-terminated SPDT general-purpose configurations. (read more)

The NI TPC-2012 touch panel computer works with the NI LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module, giving control/design engineers another option for deploying LabVIEW on Windows CE HMI devices. (read more)

The newest PXI products from National Instruments include modular instruments, an embedded controller and RAID hard drive arrays, offering sustained hard drive recording and playback at 600 MBytes/s. With these new data streaming capabilities, engineers can achieve higher sustained acquisition and generation rates and reduce test times. (read more)

The National Instruments PXI-4498 and PXI-4496 are high-accuracy data acquisition modules specifically designed for sound and vibration applications. With sixteen 24-bit analog inputs per module and IEPE constant current signal conditioning, NI PXI-449x modules are ideal for making precision measurements with microphones, accelerometers, and other transducers with very large dynamic ranges. (read more)

National Instruments expands its low-cost digital multimeter offering with the NI PXI-4065, a new 6½-digit multimeter for PXI. The low cost and high performance of the PXI-4065 digital multimeter offers a new entry point for reliable, high-channel-count data-logging measurement systems. (read more)